Friday, August 31, 2012

Birmingham mosquito control - Tips for Getting Rid of Pests











Like humans, pests also need nutrients, water, and a protected habitat to survive. The best way to pest-proof your home is to eliminate such sources from areas that pests can easily reach. This method, known as exclusion, is known by all pest control companies to be the best option for getting rid of all types of pests in your home.

To get your home free of pests, start by inspecting the outside. Garbage, leaves, grass, sticks, and other debris need to be removed from your porch and yard. Large trees and bushes should be routinely trimmed, especially if they're touching or near your home. If you have dogs, cats, or birds, make sure that their living habitats are also regularly cleaned, as their food and feces is an attraction for pests.

Next, check all of the water sources in your home including; sinks, drainage systems, toilets, and hose attachments. There shouldn't be any leaks, as pests such as mosquitoes can reproduce in puddles and other places where water is enclosed. If there are places in which the water cannot be removed or cleaned, it is recommended that you obtain mosquito control dunks. These prevent mosquitoes from reproducing and are entirely safe to use in your home.

As small as a crack or hole may seem, these should always be considered as an opportunity for pests to invade. Cockroaches, mice, ants, and termites are flexible and small, which makes it easy for them to fit into the smallest opening. Examine your home (inside and out) for any holes or cracks and repair the damage immediately.

Lastly, check inside of your home for food that is not put away. Even the tiniest crumbs can attract pests. Make it a daily routine to clean up right away after eating and do not allow your children to eat anywhere but the dining room or kitchen. This will minimize the amount of food or crumbs that fall on the floor, furniture, beds, etc.

When looking for the best pest control treatment, it is important to do your research. Why? Because sometimes using sprays or other first-line products only makes the problem worse. For example, an ant infestation will usually become bigger with sprays because only the ants that were sprayed will die. Meanwhile, the queen will keep on reproducing in the nest.

You can also avoid a pest invasion by using a preventative treatment around your home. This can be done by a professional or you can apply the treatment on your own and save some money. The products come in sprays or even granules, but it is up to you to determine which is the best option. If you have pets or children, it is extremely important to make sure that the product is not toxic; otherwise, you will have to make the treated area off-limits at all times.

If in doubt, hiring a pest control company is your best bet. They are highly trained professionals who know what they're doing and can answer any questions you may have.

Emily Taylor is a kindhearted individual who loves the outdoors; she spends most of her time lately working in her yard and tending to her garden if she isn?t writing for Birmingham mosquito control is a family owned business in Birmingham, AL specializing in getting rid of those unwanted house guests.

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Young Romney Voters Focused On Jobs, Not Social Issues

'I think that the Republicans need to stay out of people's bedrooms,' says Stephanie Petelos, 21.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Andrew Jenks


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How to Create a Successful Vision for Your Business ? Advertising ...

Creating a successful business is both simple and challenging. The simple part involves creating a step-by-step process for everything that you do. The challenging part involves knowing the essential elements that should be included in that process. As an entrepreneur, I?ve learned that creating a successful business is simple and something that anyone can do, if they are willing to get and give help. Sometimes getting help comes in the form of training with a mentor, coach, or consultant or outsourcing tasks you don?t know how to do. Giving help may include serving in a leadership role for professional groups or local chambers. Either way, at some point in your entrepreneurial journey you will find it necessary to get and give help of some sort.

Having a successful business also means that you will make mistakes. I know that I?ve made my share of mistakes, and you probably have too.? However, I have not allowed those mistakes to stop me from being successful. ?Learning from my mistakes has taught me priceless lessons I wouldn?t have learned otherwise.

History shows that as long as you stay focused on your goals and do the right things consistently, you can create your vision of a successful business.

Here are four simple keys that you can use to create more success in your business NOW:

  • Get clear ? It is important to be crystal clear on what business success means to YOU. Don?t try to follow someone else?s vision of success. If you do, you will be very disappointed. If your goal is to make $50K a year, that?s fine. If your goal is to be a millionaire that?s fine too. Write down in your journal what income you desire to make and be clear on how you are going to get there.

Break that annual goal down into quarterly goals that will make it a reality. How many clients will you need to hit that number? What products or services will generate the amount of revenue needed to hit that number? How much time and effort must you spend on your business in order to produce those results? ?Getting clear will give you focus, eliminate or minimize distractions and say no to opportunities that are not right for you. Getting clear creates time, money and effort to dedicate to what is important to you.

  • Get organized ? Organization is critical to success. Many people claim to work on getting organized because we all know that organization is important. Actually getting there, however, is another story.

    If your goal is to be more successful in business, my suggestion is to start organizing your marketing efforts in a plan. Your plan must include an outline of what you want to accomplish on a monthly basis so you can break down those goals into easy tasks and action steps. ?Take inventory of your resources. Do you already have everything you need to get started? Organize your time and make to-do lists including marketing tasks.

  • Get A Plan ? A lot of people think they can become successful without a business plan or a marketing plan. I am not one of those people. I believe if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Create a business plan by simply drafting a short two page version to get started. Your business plan should include things like, vision and mission statements, marketing, finance, operations, etc. Next, get a marketing plan. Don?t get stuck doing random acts of marketing. Random marketing efforts, yield random business success. Your marketing plan should include defining your brand and your target market as well as how you plan to reach your target audience. Remember the best marketing plans are tailored specifically for your business and relative to your niche or industry.

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  • Be consistent ? This is a tough area. Many entrepreneurs lose in this area because they are consistently inconsistent. It?s very easy to neglect marketing until you need to increase your income. However, to avoid the feast or famine syndrome and maintain a steady income, you need a steady stream of new leads and new customers. This can only be accomplished using consistent marketing.

    In order to stay consistent, you must focus. Focus on the best marketing strategies for your business. Concentrate on those strategies and do them consistently. Consistency builds the ?know, like and trust? factor for you and your business. Consistency gives you credibility and helps to establish strong relationships. It makes it easier for people to buy your products or services. Here?s a tip: do not try to tackle video marketing, blogging, all major social media platforms, speaking, networking, direct mail, print advertising and email marketing ALL at one time. You will become frustrated and get nothing done. Pick a few strategies, create a system for each and consistently work that system.

With these four keys, you can create the vision of success for your business starting today. Once you define your vision for a successful business, get clear, organized, identify the right resources, create a consistent business plan and marketing plan, you?ll be able to increase your income and experience more freedom to live the life you love.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Isaac stirs up horrible memories for New Orleans residents

By Kate Snow , NBC News

As Isaac lingered outside her door, Connie Uddo was busy Wednesday calling elderly friends in her neighborhood to make sure they were holding up. She, like the majority of New Orleans residents, had no power.

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Kate Snow interviews Connie Uddo of New Orleans.

?It?s just a tedious, long, arduous storm,? she said.

Storms are a big part of life in New Orleans. They always have been. There are records of hurricanes hitting the Crescent City as far back as the 1700s.

But things changed when Hurricane Katrina struck seven years ago ? especially for Uddo.

?Our neighborhood, it was condemned, uninhabitable and unsafe. You had to have a pass to get in,? she said.


That is something she never wants to live through again ? she doesn?t think she could handle it. As Isaac was bearing down, she felt a familiar mixture of dread and anxiety.

?The wind had me a little freaked out at points last night because our house was shaking a lot and the windows were rattling,? she said.

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A downgraded Isaac floods coastal communities and forces new evacuations, but levees still hold.

Uddo and her kids had evacuated just before Katrina hit. In October of 2005, when she returned to her 90-year-old wood and plaster home, she found a mold-infested mess. The first floor, which they had renovated as rental units, had been under eight feet of water, which took a month to drain out.?

?It was horrific. It was shocking. It was something that I never thought I would ever see in my lifetime ... everything was gray.," she said. "It literally looked like a nuclear disaster. There were no birds, insects, squirrels. The silence was just deafening.?

Uddo thought about leaving for good. She cried ? a?lot.

?It wasn?t just the physical loss,? she said. ?It was the emotional loss of your community, your social network, your children?s friends.?

Weather Channel Meteorologist Jim Cantore reports from New Orleans where rainfall is still expected to reach 12 to 20 inches. The full scope of Isaac's damage to the Gulf Coast states won't be fully known until Friday.

But Uddo decided to move back and rebuild. In January 2006, her family was the first of 10 families in her neighborhood to have electricity.

Lakeview, she said, was a ?green dot? on a city planning map ? a place that some planners thought would become nothing but green space with no residential homes.?

She wouldn't hear of it. "We?re a hundred-year-old neighborhood. You don?t tell a hundred-year-old neighborhood that."

So she rebuilt, and she convinced others to do the same. Uddo would walk around the neighborhood asking plumbers, roofers, builders and other tradespeople for their phone numbers. Since phone books no longer worked, she compiled a list. She counseled her neighbors at her dining room table. She recruited teen-aged volunteers to come to the neighborhood and clean up the front yards so that returning residents wouldn't be as shocked as she had been when she first drove in.

Eventually, Uddo opened St. Paul?s Homecoming Center, which still operates and helps residents who fled Katrina. The center has coordinated more than 50,000 volunteers.

As soon as Isaac lets up enough, probably on Thursday, Uddo plans to go back to the Center and start the cleanup. So far, she hasn?t seen any major flooding in her neighborhood. On a walk earlier Wednesday she checked on the trees she recently planted. They?re tattered, but still standing. The elderly neighbors she called are doing all right too. And for that, she?s thankful.

?Hopefully tomorrow we?ll be back in action,? she said.

Wednesday was spent napping, having tea, catching up on laundry and house chores.

?I really feel blessed. I don?t want to jinx it. It?s not over. But it could?ve been worse.? So many things could?ve happened.?

The storm has tested the city's post-Katrina flood defenses, leaving many roads impassable and creating a storm surge from Louisiana to Alabama. NBC's Lester Holt reports.

Uddo thinks a storm like Isaac solidifies her community.

?Once again we?re a stronger, more unified community because of it. And that?s the silver lining. You come out stronger."

One of the biggest lessons of Katrina, Uddo said, is that neighbors have to look out for each other. Before Katrina, they never would have coordinated before a storm. On Tuesday night, before the power went out, Uddo and her husband went up the block for a neighborhood gathering. They made plans together about what they would do if the water rose on their streets.

?At the end of the day, all we have is each other,? she said.

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China Can Take Ford To $12

















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Ford Motors is betting big on China. The automaker is launching and developing cars for the affluent as well as the more price sensitive Chinese customers. Ford is also gearing up to launch its luxury brand Lincoln in the country from 2014 onward. This represents a big investment in addition to the $5 billion the automaker has already spent in the country since 2006.

It will not be easy for Ford though. The luxury brand will attract an import tax of 25% since the Lincoln cars were not manufactured in China initially.?Chinese vehicles sales growth has slowed down in 2012 even though the country overtook the U.S. last year to become the largest auto market in the world. However, luxury sales in China still trails those in the U.S. but are expected to surpass them by 2020.

At the same time, Ford is developing a low cost model in its Hangzhou plant in Eastern China which is due to begin production from 2015 onward. Currently, the cheapest model that Ford offers is Ford Fiesta, priced at around $13,000, 30% more expensive than GM?s Sail. Thus, offering a low cost model is critical to Ford?s long term sustainability in the country. Ford only has 6 models in China currently (compared to GM?s 30) but is adding a seventh model, the Kuga compact SUV by the end of the year. In total, Ford plans to launch 15 new car models by 2015.?The automaker also plans to double the workforce as well as the number of dealerships in China by 2015

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Ford has traditionally lagged behind other major autos such as General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota Motors in China primarily because it was too slow to enter the Chinese market. In 2011, Ford could boast a market share of only 2.5% in the country; trailing Volkswagen?s 18% and GM?s 10%.

But Ford is going full throttle with investments in China and Asia/Pacific. Currently, eight plants are being built in the region to expand capacity with the most recent being the decision to invest $760 million in a manufacturing plant in Hangzhou to cash in on the growing opportunity in a nation whose auto market Ford expects to surge to 30 million vehicles by 2020 from 18.5 million in 2011.

We have a price estimate of $12 for Ford Motors, which is about 30% more than the current market price.

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The Recession And Social Security Disability - Business Insider

Picking up on recent comments by Russ Roberts on the changes in the disability rolls over time, we thought we might revisit Social Security's data on the number of disabled workers collecting disability benefits for the years corresponding to the Great Recession. Beginning with the pre-recession baseline year of 2005, our first chart today shows the number of disabled workers counted as receiving Social Security disability insurance benefits for each year through 2011:

Here, we note that most of the change in the number of disabled workers from year to year is concentrated in older individuals, mostly Age 46 or older. We also note the moving peak of the leading edge of the Baby Boom generation from year to year, which we see shift from Age 58 for 2005 up to Age 64 in Age 2011.

In our next chart, we've extracted the net change in the number of disabled workers receiving Social Security disability insurance benefits from year to year, which we did by subtracting the previous year's number of disabled workers for the one-year-younger age group from the indicated age group:

This chart shows how many disabled workers were added to the number of Social Security disability benefit recipients with respect to the previous year's one-year-younger age group.

Here, we note that there is a distinct spike in disabled workers receiving Social Security disability benefits at Age 50, regardless of each year's economic climate. Here, we earlier found that this corresponds to the Social Security Administration's policy of not seriously challenging the disability claims of workers Age 50 or older.

But perhaps more importantly, in looking at the year-over-year change from 2005 to 2006 (identified as 2006 in the chart) and the year-over-year change from 2006 to 2007 (identified as 2007 in the chart), we find that the year-over-year change for these two pre-recession years are almost identical. This gives us a very good baseline from which we can determine the extent to which the Great Recession has influenced the number of individuals successfully claiming disability benefits in subsequent years.

That result is shown in our third chart, in which we've counted the number of surplus or excess disabled workers added to the number of disability claims in each year from 2007 through 2011 with respect to the net change recorded for each indicated age in 2006:

Adding up the values for each indicated age for each year, we find the number of surplus or excess disabled workers, or rather the number of disabled workers above and beyond what would be considered "normal" and might therefore be attributed to the Great Recession, were added to the disability rolls in the years from 2007 through 2011:

Altogether then, we estimate that some 695,228 individuals, above and beyond the numbers that might be considered to be normal, have filed for and received Social Security disability insurance benefits in response to the Great Recession in the years from 2008 through 2011. We also note that the timing of the increase in the disability rolls would correspond to when many of these individuals would have exhausted their unemployment benefits, suggesting that going on disability became an alternative to seeking gainful employment for these individuals.

And that's a big reason why Social Security's Disability Insurance Trust Fund is now projected to be fully depleted in less than four years time.

Data Sources

Social Security Administration.
Disabled worker beneficiaries in current payment status in December of indicated year, distributed by age and sex. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Accessed 27 August 2012.

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Israeli tells settlers to evacuate outpost by Tuesday

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's high court ruled on Wednesday that an unauthorized Jewish settler outpost on occupied West Bank territory must be evacuated by next Tuesday.

The court rejected an appeal by the settlers to delay the evacuation of Migron, a hilltop settlement of about 50 families, which an earlier court ruling had decided was built on privately-owned Palestinian land.

The Migron settlement was one of dozens built more than a decade ago without Israeli government authorization on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War but which Palestinians claim for a hoped-for independent state.

The court had delayed an initial August 1 deadline due to the settlers' appeal.

Some had contested the ruling in order to seek a delay in moving out, saying temporary homes for them elsewhere in the West Bank were not ready. Others maintained they had purchased the land in question.

"We order the petitioners be evacuated from the outpost not later than September 4, 2012 and that the buildings be removed no later than September 11, 2012. The appeal has been rejected," the written court ruling said.

The Israeli authorities have voiced concern in the past that settlers could respond violently to any evacuation orders. Settlers have in numerous instances defied government orders and rebuilt unauthorized outposts removed.

The United Nations deems all Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. Israel disputes this and distinguishes between about 120 settlements it has sanctioned and about 100 outposts erected by settlers without authorization.

Migron settlers have long said they were encouraged by the state to erect their outpost. Though it never received official sanction, the government has spent at least 4 million shekels ($1.1 million) on maintaining the cluster of mobile homes.

The settlements issue is one of the main obstacle to a resumption of the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.

The Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem and say the settlements deny them a contiguous, viable entity. No Palestinian reaction to the Migron ruling was immediately available.

About 311,000 Israeli settlers and 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank.

(Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Michael Roddy and Angus MacSwan)

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Marines testing women in combat jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) ? There may be some anxiety from male Marines as female officers work their way into infantry and other combat jobs that historically have been open only to men, Gen. James F. Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, said Tuesday.

Amos said early steps to begin moving women into artillery, tank air defense and combat engineer units have been successful, but the more difficult tests lie ahead.

"Change doesn't come easy to the United States Marine Corps," Amos told an audience at the National Press Club. "But when it does, when it's rooted, it lasts forever. So I think we'll work our way through it."

A key challenge will take place next month as female Marine officers attend the grueling infantry officer school at the Marine Corps' Quantico, Va., base as part of an experiment to gauge whether women can handle the course's extreme physical and mental challenges. So far, two women have volunteered to go through the 13-week course, which historically sees attrition rates of 20 percent to 25 percent when only men are participating.

"I need to get past hyperbole and get past intuition and instincts, and I need to get facts," Amos said, adding that the Marines intend to maintain the same standards for men and women. "If you're going to be infantry officer, you will spend 13 weeks at Quantico going through some very, very difficult training. So that's the standard, the measure of an infantry officer in the Marine Corps."

Officials, he said, will evaluate the test, collect the data and then he will give his recommendation to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

The Pentagon in February announced that the military was formally opening up thousands of jobs to women in units closer to the front lines to better reflect the realities of modern warfare. Women already are fight on the front lines in Afghanistan, and they did the same in Iraq. The new rules will allow women to perform many of the jobs they already have been doing, but in smaller units that are closer to the fighting and were once considered too dangerous.

To say women are a minority in the Marine Corps is an understatement; of the roughly 200,000 Marines, 13,700 are female. So the integration will be slow and in small numbers.

By mid-October 45 women Marine officers and staff non-commissioned officers will join various artillery, tank and combat engineer battalions across the country. And Amos said he met with the top leaders of the 19 battalions that could get female Marines and told them that they need to do this the right way and establish the proper command climate to give the women the opportunity to succeed.

He added that the Marine Corps also has sent out a survey to service members to collect their views on allowing women in the infantry. And officials are also setting up a series of physical tests to compare the strength of male and female officers and enlisted Marines.

A 1994 Pentagon policy prohibits women from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. A brigade is roughly 3,500 troops split into several battalions of about 800 soldiers each. Historically, brigades were based farther from the front lines, and they often include top command and support staff, while battalions usually are in closer contact with the enemy.

Historically, women could not be formally assigned to those battalion-level jobs. But in the past decade the necessities of war propelled women into jobs such as medics, military police and intelligence officers, and they were sometimes attached ? but not formally assigned ? to battalions.

So while a woman couldn't be assigned as an infantryman in a battalion going out on patrol, she could fly the helicopter supporting the unit or move in to provide medical aid if troops were injured. The new rules will formally allow women to work in those jobs at the battalion level.

The new rules don't open up the Navy SEALs or the Army Delta Force to women, but some defense officials have said the military may eventually consider that.

In other comments, Amos defended the administrative punishments doled out to three Marines on Monday for their participation in a video that showed them urinating on the corpses of Taliban insurgents.

While there were no criminal charges, he said the discipline "was not a slap on the wrist." And he said additional Marines will also "be held accountable" for the incident, which triggered outrage among Afghans when it was revealed on YouTube earlier this year.

The actual administrative punishments have not been made public, but could include demotions, extra duty, forfeiture of pay or a letter in their file. The punishments also could stall any future advancement and end their military careers.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/marines-testing-women-combat-jobs-210839576.html

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

*Beverly Diehl's Writing in Flow*: More Domestic Violence, Please

In (dis)honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month in October, I'm looking for guest posts. Preferably true stories, to which you would be willing to attach your real name, but if you only feel comfortable with a pseudonym, I'll take that, too.

Part of the problem with domestic violence is people feel ashamed to talk about it.


There are certain stereotypes about domestic violence, and victims think, "It's not supposed to happen to people like me. I'm too [smart; educated; strong; financially secure; confident...] to be in this situation, so I should be able to get myself out of it." Men are also victims of domestic violence, in both gay and straight relationships, and they face a double stigma, because "real men" aren't supposed to let other people beat them up (especially "the little woman"), and there isn't much recognition or social support for men seeking to stop a partner's violence.

Personally, I don't even like the word "victim" - it sounds weak, needy, helpless. *grits teeth* I, Beverly Diehl, am a victim of domestic violence. I'm not weak, needy, or helpless; I'm a smart, strong, capable woman, and yet I found myself in a relationship where I was being physically, verbally, and emotionally abused. *looks around* There, I wrote it, and the world has not come to an end.

I think, too, that part of it is we don't want domestic violence to define who we are. Yes, I am a victim of domestic violence; I am also an avid reader and writer, a crafter, skilled at my day job, a pet lover and traveler and a picky eater and many many other things. I don't want to talk and read about domestic violence all the time - but I do want to discuss the subject periodically, especially in October.

People don't always understand what domestic violence is.?


It is not only being beaten, hit, pushed, slapped and choked. It's also being belittled, ridiculed, called names, cut off and not being allowed to speak. Physical violence has never yet been documented to happen without verbal violence proceeding it. So, if you're being judged and criticized, if your partner blasts you with his/her anger, if s/he throws or slams things, breaks your possessions, threatens you, if s/he blames you for everything that goes wrong...? You're being abused, even if s/he never lays a finger on you.?

If, as a child, you were told you were stupid, worthless, that your parents regretted having you, if you were not permitted to have friendships or repeatedly yelled at for normal childhood mistakes like spilling your milk... that's domestic violence. Emotional and financial abuse is just as real and as degrading as physical abuse, and does just as much to destroy the psyche of a child or a partner as a fist.? Often the painful memory of stinging words outlasts any bruises or broken bones.


If the home atmosphere is sometimes fun and happy, and other times horrifically tense, where everyone is walking on eggshells, hoping to keep from "setting off" an explosion of anger and verbal or physical abuse from a parent or partner - that's a home where domestic violence lives.

I grew up in a home like that. (Which is part of why I missed the warning signs with my ex.)

There's a perception that once you are a victim (or perpetrator) of domestic violence, your life is ruined forever.?


In some cases, that's tragically true. In some cases domestic violence ends in murder or suicide. My blogfriend Kim at My Inner Chick writes posts that are tasty and shoelicious and funny, but she also writes poignantly about her beautiful sister Kay, lost to domestic violence in May 2010.

It's important to remember that domestic violence can be a matter of life or death.

But in most cases, a victim can move on and reclaim her or his life. An abuser can learn other, better ways of dealing with his/her own inner fears and frustrations. If you live in a domestically violent home right now, it may feel hopeless, but truly, there are ways out. Please, don't give up, reach out for help.

I know I'm not the only one with a story to tell.


I'm hoping you will join me, with your own story about how domestic violence has affected your life, with a guest post of 500-800 words. It's a huge subject, and it's not that many words, so below are? some ideas that you might choose to focus on. Warning - these questions/reminders may be triggering to read and think about, so only do so if you feel emotionally safe enough and strong enough.

If you grew up in a domestically violent household:
  • How old were you when it started, or was it always present?
  • Emotional violence, physical violence, sexual violence, or all of them?
  • Did one parent try to shield you, or did s/he join in or enable the abuse?
  • If you had siblings, was there a "golden child," or did everyone get a share of the abuse?
  • Was your abuser one of your siblings? Did your parents not notice, or...?
  • How old were you when you realized not everyone lived like this?
  • What's your relationship like with the abuser now??
  • What advice would you give to a minor who is being abused by a sibling, parent or parental figure?

If you have been the victim of abuse in a love relationship:
  • If you are still in a relationship with someone who did or still abuses you, why are you staying? What help would you like to receive, if any?
  • How did you become aware that you were being abused?
  • Looking back, were there warning flags at the beginning that you missed?
  • After the first incident of abuse, what happened next?
  • Did s/he blame you for the abuse, or did you blame yourself?
  • Many opine that in an abusive relationship, joint counseling - which assumes that both parties are equally at fault - can do more harm than good. Did you ever get joint, or individual counseling? What helped, what hurt?
  • Does your church/synagogue/mosque tacitly or openly support domestic violence, or has it been a safe refuge for you?
  • Did you ever call the police to report a partner's attack? Why or why not?
  • How long after the abuse began was it until you left? Why did you stay that long?
  • Did the abuse affect your ability to hold a job, or carry out your work responsibilities?? Did you ever miss time from work because you were too physically or emotionally battered to go in?
  • If you left the relationship, what help from family and friends was most helpful? Most counterproductive?
  • Is there mental illness in play; your own or your partner's, either diagnosed or suspected?
  • Did your partner ever coerce or force you into sexual intercourse, or perhaps a particular sexual act? Would you call what s/he did rape? Why or why not?
  • Did alcohol or drugs play a part in the abuse dynamics - and how?
  • What triggered your decision to end the relationship?
  • If you have left the relationship, how long ago was it? What remnants of the abuse can you still detect in your life? How has it affected current love relationships - if any?
  • Do you feel ashamed that you are/were in a domestically violent relationship? How often, if at all, do you tell people about it?
  • What advice would you give someone who is currently being abused by a partner?

If you are a person who has physically or emotionally abused others:
  • Why do you think you do it/did it?
  • If you can, break down the thoughts and emotions going through your mind just prior to venting your rage at a partner or child.
  • Have you stopped? What triggered your decision to stop abusing?
  • Were you ever confronted by police as a result of your abuse? Arrested?
  • Has domestic violence ever cost you a job or impacted your work?
  • Have you been physically or emotionally violent with more than one partner?
  • If you have ever been convicted of violence against another person, have you disclosed this to your new love interests? If yes, at what point?
  • What kind of counseling/treatment/medications have been helpful, and which have been unhelpful?
  • Has alcohol or other drugs played a role in your abusive behavior?
  • Do you tell any of your family, friends, co-workers you are/were an abuser?
  • What would you tell someone who is currently being abused by a partner?
  • What would you say to someone who is currently abusing a partner or child?

If you have been a witness to domestic violence - of a sibling, friend, neighbor, or co-worker:

  • Did you notice signs that something was wrong before anything was ever said?
  • How did you try to help?
  • What methods of help and support seemed to help him/her, and what seemed counter-productive?
  • Have you ever called the police because of a neighbor or friend's domestic dispute?
  • Do you know someone still in a domestically violent relationship?
  • Do you have resources to recommend?
  • How has this relationship changed your own life?
  • What would you say to someone who knows or suspects domestic violence is occurring to a friend, sibling, neighbor, or co-worker?

As stated above, I'd like your guest posts, 500-800 words long, with at least your own real name if you are comfortable disclosing it, a pseudonym if not, for use here on Writing in Flow during the month of October. If you want to contribute and only feel comfortable writing a short fiction piece of the same length on the subject, I'll take that too.

If you have your own blog and would prefer to do a blog hop with your post living on your own blog, I may put up linkies for that too, that in addition to whatever I post here, provided there's enough interest.

Please send me an e-mail at bevdiehl (at) gmail (dot) com now and let me know you're "in," and if I can count on you for a guest post, or if you prefer to do a blog hop (or better yet, if you're willing to do both). Put Domestic Violence or DV in the subject line so I can sort 'em out from my other e-mails, thanks.

I will send you periodic reminders - October isn't that far away, and this will not be an easy piece to write, I know.

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Domestic Violence Resources

USA:
National Domestic Violence Hotline?- 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)? TTY- 1-800-787-3224?
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (includes downloadable guides for helping women in abusive relationships)
National Alliance on Mental Illness, aka NAMI

Canada:
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence - you will need to opt for English or French

UK:
Women's Aid - 0808 2000 247

Australia & New Zealand:
Domestic Violence Information Manual - phone numbers vary by territory

For Male Victims:
Menweb
Why Men Stay in Abusive Relationships

Repeating: Please send me an e-mail at bevdiehl (at) gmail (dot) com now and let me know you're "in," and if I can count on you for a guest post, or if you prefer to do a blog hop (or, if you're willing to do both). Put Domestic Violence or DV in the subject line so I can sort 'em out from my other e-mails, thanks.

Also if you have any book recommendations - either fiction or non-fiction, that deal with physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, please e-mail to me or leave in the comments, below.

Also, thank you in advance for sharing this invitation among your social network.

Source: http://writinginflow.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-domestic-violence-please.html

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Military hopes nasal spray will prevent suicides

By Rebecca Ruiz, NBC News

The military is seeing unprecedented mental illness and suicide in its ranks, and is funding research to treat depression and prevent the most tragic of outcomes.

In July, a report released by the military found that mental health disorders in active-duty troops increased 65 percent since 2000. Of the more than 900,000 diagnoses, about 85 percent included cases of adjustment disorders, depression, alcohol abuse and anxiety. This month, the Army reported 38 suspected suicides among active-duty and reserve soldiers in July, the highest monthly number of suicides since record-keeping began a few years ago.?

Col. Carl Castro, director of the Military Operational Medicine Research Program, told NBC News that the military is "leaving no stone unturned" in its hunt to find evidence-based treatments for depression and suicide. Included in its multimillion dollar research portfolio is a grant to evaluate whether a nasal spray using a fast-acting hormone could alleviate symptoms of both depression and suicidal behavior.


Related: Mental health disorders among troops increased 65 percent since 2000

The $2.9 million grant will support a three-year development and testing period that will ideally culminate in seeking Food and Drug Administration approval for the medication and delivery device. The grant was awarded in April to Dr. Michael Kubek, a professor of neurobiology at Indiana University.?

Kubek will research the use of Thyrotropin-Releasing hormone (TRH), which is known to act rapidly in relieving depression and suicidal behavior. However, its effects are short-term and the hormone has difficulty crossing the blood-brain barrier. Kubek is aiming to load up nanoparticles with TRH and then deliver them via the nasal spray, which could lengthen the drug's effectiveness and overcome the challenges of getting past the blood-brain barrier.

The military is hopeful that the spray will provide a treatment for the period between when a patient is first diagnosed for depression or suicidal thoughts and when typical anti-depressants become fully effective, which can take three to six weeks.

The clinical trial will compare a few hundred patients split into two groups: one receiving the nasal spray and another getting a similar drug used to treat suicidal behavior and depression. The idea, Castro said, is to determine not only if the spray works, but if it is more effective than current drug therapies. The study will look at whether or not the drug decreases depression and suicidal thoughts.

Should the drug prove effective, Castro said a realistic timeline for putting it in a soldier's hands would be five to eight years to account for possible setbacks and additional studies.

The research is part of a $100 million ?effort to study psychological and mental illness in the Army. Half of that funding is for Army STARRS (Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers), an initiative done in partnership with the National Institute of Mental Health to gather details about the lives and mental health of 55,000 soldiers. The Army hopes that the epidemiological study may eventually identify groups of soldiers whose mental health is most fragile based on an algorithm or formula of factors.

Related: Army program aims to predict soldiers' resiliency

The Army has allocated $18 million for 12 studies looking at treatment for depression and suicidal thoughts. The nasal spray study is the only one in the Army's portfolio to test a drug.?

Despite the fact that suicide ranks in the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. ? 36,909 people died by suicide in 2009 according to the latest available figures???clinicians still don't have a set of evidence-based standards for how to effectively treat suicidal patients. Instead, they rely often on a combination of medication and therapy that has shown promise, but has varying degrees of success.

The urgency to find a treatment has become critically important to the military as it searches for answers to its own suicide epidemic.

"We have no real explanation for why they're happening," Castro said of military suicides. The goal, he said, is to base treatment on science as opposed to "medical hunches."

The time it takes to design and execute a study can be frustrating to those waiting for an effective treatment, but Castro said, "at least at the end of the day, we'll know if something does work."

Rebecca Ruiz is a reporter at NBC News and a 2011-2012 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow. Follow her on Twitter here.

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Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/27/13506290-military-hopes-antidepressant-nasal-spray-will-prevent-suicides?lite

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Networks prepare to juggle politics, weather

NEW YORK (AP) ? Television networks are preparing to juggle two major stories in the coming days as Tropical Storm Isaac heads toward New Orleans after side-swiping the site of the GOP national convention in Tampa.

Anderson Cooper of CNN and Shepard Smith of Fox News Channel were shifted Monday by their networks to New Orleans. It's an odd rerun: four years ago Cooper also left a Republican convention to head to the gulf region ahead of Hurricane Gustav.

News networks already had to make programming changes with the Republicans postponing the opening night of their convention on Monday. The strength and timing of the storm will also affect how much time will be spent on each story.

Said one network executive: "Expect to see a lot of split-screens."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/networks-prepare-juggle-politics-weather-183524329.html

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Oak Ridge partnership merges strengths of lab, private sector

Oak Ridge partnership merges strengths of lab, private sector [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Aug-2012
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 27, 2012 An Oak Ridge engineering services firm with an international footprint has teamed with three Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists to form a subsidiary and market an award-winning text analysis system.

The subsidiary, Global Security Information Analysts LLC, is the product of Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) and the inventors of Piranha, software used by the military and Department of Homeland Security to analyze large sets of streaming data.

"Piranha can find similar documents to a document of interest, remove duplicated documents such as identical news stories from different sources, and automatically classify documents by topic," said ORNL's Tom Potok, one of the software's inventors. The technology has been used to find and arrest child predators and to uncover illicit activities.

Barry Goss, founder, chairman and CEO of Pro2Serve, sees the licensing of Piranha as a triple play for ORNL, the scientists and his company.

"Melding the software with subject matter experts and providing expert analytical services can have a profound impact on solving national security issues," Goss said. "Having direct involvement of the scientists who developed the software will obviously help our subject matter experts more effectively apply the software to solve critical problems for our government clients.

"Our hope is that this new venture will grow, expand the local business base and create high-quality jobs in our community."

Potok and co-inventors Robert Patton and Jim Treadwell will remain at ORNL to continue research and development of Piranha while Global Security Information Analysts will help broaden the user base of Piranha through added technical and analytical support.

"It has long been a dream to see Piranha commercialized and widely used," Potok said. "This new model and company make this possible."

Global Security Information Analysts will provide the services of subject matter experts equipped with the latest high-powered software tools like Piranha to analyze large amounts of textual data and provide accurate and relevant information gleaned from the data.

The concept for this novel business model for strengthening technology transfer emerged as part of the Piranha software product development.

Like Goss and Potok, Mike Paulus, director of ORNL's Technology Transfer Division, believes the Global Security Information Analysts component will make this a winning formula.

"It is often very valuable for inventors of a technology to participate in its commercialization," Paulus said. "ORNL's 'outside activity' program enables staff members to participate in entrepreneurial activities outside the laboratory while maintaining their primary jobs of developing technology inside the laboratory.

"We believe that this business model will prove successful and we hope it can be applied to a number of other technologies developed by ORNL in the future."

Piranha, which won an R&D 100 Award in 2007, was developed through DOE's Work for Others program.

Pro2Serve is an Oak Ridge-based company founded in 1996 and is dedicated to providing critical infrastructure engineering services in support of the nation's security.

UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov/

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NOTE TO EDITORS: You may read other press releases from Oak Ridge National Laboratory or learn more about the lab at http://www.ornl.gov/news. Additional information about ORNL is available at the sites below:

Twitter - http://twitter.com/oakridgelabnews

RSS Feeds - http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss_feeds.shtml

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/oakridgelab

YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/OakRidgeNationalLab

LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/companies/oak-ridge-national-laboratory

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Oak Ridge partnership merges strengths of lab, private sector [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 27-Aug-2012
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Contact: Ron Walli
wallira@ornl.gov
865-576-0226
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 27, 2012 An Oak Ridge engineering services firm with an international footprint has teamed with three Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists to form a subsidiary and market an award-winning text analysis system.

The subsidiary, Global Security Information Analysts LLC, is the product of Professional Project Services (Pro2Serve) and the inventors of Piranha, software used by the military and Department of Homeland Security to analyze large sets of streaming data.

"Piranha can find similar documents to a document of interest, remove duplicated documents such as identical news stories from different sources, and automatically classify documents by topic," said ORNL's Tom Potok, one of the software's inventors. The technology has been used to find and arrest child predators and to uncover illicit activities.

Barry Goss, founder, chairman and CEO of Pro2Serve, sees the licensing of Piranha as a triple play for ORNL, the scientists and his company.

"Melding the software with subject matter experts and providing expert analytical services can have a profound impact on solving national security issues," Goss said. "Having direct involvement of the scientists who developed the software will obviously help our subject matter experts more effectively apply the software to solve critical problems for our government clients.

"Our hope is that this new venture will grow, expand the local business base and create high-quality jobs in our community."

Potok and co-inventors Robert Patton and Jim Treadwell will remain at ORNL to continue research and development of Piranha while Global Security Information Analysts will help broaden the user base of Piranha through added technical and analytical support.

"It has long been a dream to see Piranha commercialized and widely used," Potok said. "This new model and company make this possible."

Global Security Information Analysts will provide the services of subject matter experts equipped with the latest high-powered software tools like Piranha to analyze large amounts of textual data and provide accurate and relevant information gleaned from the data.

The concept for this novel business model for strengthening technology transfer emerged as part of the Piranha software product development.

Like Goss and Potok, Mike Paulus, director of ORNL's Technology Transfer Division, believes the Global Security Information Analysts component will make this a winning formula.

"It is often very valuable for inventors of a technology to participate in its commercialization," Paulus said. "ORNL's 'outside activity' program enables staff members to participate in entrepreneurial activities outside the laboratory while maintaining their primary jobs of developing technology inside the laboratory.

"We believe that this business model will prove successful and we hope it can be applied to a number of other technologies developed by ORNL in the future."

Piranha, which won an R&D 100 Award in 2007, was developed through DOE's Work for Others program.

Pro2Serve is an Oak Ridge-based company founded in 1996 and is dedicated to providing critical infrastructure engineering services in support of the nation's security.

UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov/

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NOTE TO EDITORS: You may read other press releases from Oak Ridge National Laboratory or learn more about the lab at http://www.ornl.gov/news. Additional information about ORNL is available at the sites below:

Twitter - http://twitter.com/oakridgelabnews

RSS Feeds - http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss_feeds.shtml

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/oakridgelab

YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/OakRidgeNationalLab

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Fuji Electric releasing first coin-operated EV fast charger, gives electric cars extra life

DNP Fuji Electric releasing first coinoperated EV fast charger, gives electric cars extra lifeFuji Electric Retail Systems Co. is no stranger to flipping coins for profit, thanks to a robust lineup of vending machines such as the A011. The Japanese company, however, has also branched out from dispensing hot and cold drinks for change by supplementing its offerings with a different kind of juice. Meet the FRCM00CK -- the industry's first coin-operated fast charger for electric vehicles, according to Fuji Electric. The charger measures 300mm wide, 400mm deep, 1,210mm tall and tips the scale at 41 kilograms. It also doesn't take paper currency, limiting its appetite to coins in ¥10, ¥50, ¥100 and ¥500 denominations. The machine's product page doesn't give specifics about how long it takes to charge vehicles but says it can provide a maximum charging time of 60 minutes. Incidentally, Fuji Electric's US site states that its FRC series of EV chargers can completely power up a 25 kWh electric vehicle battery in about 60 minutes. The coin-operated charger will cost ¥600,000 or about $7,600 and is slated for a 2012 release. Some may argue that it doesn't have quite the geek cool of the Roto-A-Matic or the WiFi vending machine. Still, the FRCM00CK is decidedly more electric.

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Multiple new mini iPad proofs - ProductReviews

The chances of Apple releasing a smaller iPad were very slim when Steve Jobs had been alive, which is thanks to his repeated words on a 7-inch model not being needed to fill the gap between iPhone and the 10-inch iPad. It seems that 2012 is a very different year, and this week alone has seen multiple new mini iPad rumors surfacing that confirm what should be the official name and an event planned for October.

Just two days ago we reported that it would be unlikely to see the new iPhone share a stage with other hardware, which has since been given weight from other sources all pointing towards an October event planned for the iPad mini, and this is separate to the new iPhone event expected in September. Within the last 24-hours an article on AllThingsD has touched on the possibility of an October event for the mini iPad, and it?s their opinion that two events is ideal for Apple to keep on top of the ?tech news cycle? right before the busy holiday shopping season.

The name will be kept simple ? just like Apple did with the ?New iPad?, the 3rd generation, it looks like they will keep the name simple for a smaller iPad this year. Today we?re hearing from an Asian source that the official name will simply be ?iPad mini? and come in at a size of 7.85-inches. The source also highlights that the October event could feature a new iPod touch 5G and iPad nano, and we?ve heard previously this event could be focused on everything iTunes and Music with a more mobile iPad.

What specs would you like the mini iPad to feature? The price is currently unclear, although expect it to be cheaper and lose a few specs to cut costs. The iPod touch 5G might feature NFC, as with the iPad 3, and this would allow for the media player to become almost the same as the iPhone (just lacking traditional phone calls).

Source: http://www.product-reviews.net/2012/08/26/multiple-new-mini-ipad-proofs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=multiple-new-mini-ipad-proofs

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Helpful Air Duct Cleaning Reminders for Every Ottawa Homeowner











Never be tricked into thinking that air duct cleaning is a heater and air conditioning maintenance activity that you can invariably postpone. It's easy to give in to the mistaken notion that it can take years before dirt and dust totally obstruct your air ducts. Having said that, depending on the size of your commercial or residential property, air duct cleaning certainly counts as one of the most vital heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) maintenance tasks you could undertake.

The dust and dirt that accumulates in your air ducts can cause breathing difficulties, inefficiency in the distribution of air, and in severe cases, even trigger ailments. For that reason, it makes perfect sense to keep them clean, and to do so on a regular basis. A trusted Ottawa HVAC contractor can do this for you.

True, Ottawa is not a city where you need to have your air ducts spruced up every month. Frequency will rely on factors including the age of your house, prior overhauls carried out, and the number of your pets. Have your air ducts looked over and talk to your HVAC professional to obtain his opinion on how often you must have your air ducts cleaned.

Winter in Ottawa leads to temperatures that go well over freezing; meanwhile, nights could get exceedingly frigid, reaching -30?C. Because of this, furnaces and other heating apparatus are things that any Ottawa home can never do without. Make sure heat in your household is efficiently distributed by having the air ducts on your furnace Ottawa HVAC companies inspect, serviced before winter starts.

If you notice hotter-than-usual areas in your home, or if you suddenly get high monthly energy bills, chances are, hot air is not properly flowing throughout your home. Occasionally, all it takes is a thorough air duct cleaning by an expert in heating and cooling Ottawa residents trust. Always have the contact details of your reliable HVAC professional ready for 24/7 emergency repair attention.

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